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Case Study: Salt Lake City Olympics Scandal
Part A - Research the Salt Lake City Olympics scandal and address specific issues that link to Bigtown's situation.
Upon reading the article, "The Big Business of the Olympics and Bribery, I can identify several items that are similar to the proposed arrangement for Bigtown's mayor. First, it is unfair to offer contracts for city work to companies who can bring convention business. Not all companies may be able to bring convention business to the town at this time. Unfortunately, this would leave a lot of businesses out of the running if they were not willing to bring business into the town; they would not be offered the same fairness when bidding on a city contract.
I noticed that with the Salt Lake City scandal, The Salt Lake Organizing
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